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There have been many security holes and crashes caused by undetected integer overflow. The rationale is that detecting this condition would be a useful step toward preventing that category of bug.

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The rationale, then, is that the compiler should catch mistakes that lead to security holes. On that basis, then, we'll be adding GC memory management, so we never access freed memory, also strongly defined types - e.g. bounded integers, and bounded arrays too. Writing the OS an ADA would satisfy this chap?

"catching security holes" is the compiler version of "think of the children".

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